On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure if anything in this might be helpful, but I found this:
https://github.com/oopos/fossil/tree/master/tools/cvs2fossil
I haven't looked at it yet, but it strikes me as somewhat ironic that a
tool for converting CVS to
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Baruch Burstein bmburst...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure if anything in this might be helpful, but I found this:
https://github.com/oopos/fossil/tree/master/tools/cvs2fossil
I haven't looked at
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:30:46 +0300
Baruch Burstein bmburst...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Baruch Burstein
bmburst...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Ron W
ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure if anything in this might be helpful, but I found
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Baruch Burstein bmburst...@gmail.com
wrote:
Done. As I said, It is *very* much a work-in-progress.
Looks like a good start. Not as much code as I thought it would require.
Baruch,
Not sure
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, another reason in favor of a direct importer: Git only tracks the
heads of branches. No history is being lost, just that determining what
branch a given commit belongs to is difficult. Therefor, git-fast-import
doesn't
On 23 October 2014 12:26, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Having read post from many places, one of the big complaints SVN users have
about Git is directory tracking. Fossil lack this, too.
I had a weird related issue the other day (I would argue it's a bug, but YMMV).
I was moving an
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Baruch Burstein bmburst...@gmail.com
wrote:
Done. As I said, It is *very* much a work-in-progress.
Looks like a good start. Not as much code as I thought it would require.
A direct import will certainly bypass the limitations of using
git-fast-import as an
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote:
What about svn:externals? I know many projects, as well as the one in
question, use them a lot?
Any optimal way to do it with Fossil?
I had forgotten about externals in SVN.
I recall something about someone adding nested
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Baruch Burstein bmburst...@gmail.com
wrote:
I have been working recently (albeit slowly) on a 'fossil import --svn'
option. I haven't pushed it since I didn't know if it would end up going
anywhere, but if people are interested in seeing partial work, I can
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Please make your in-progress SVN imported avilable.
I will try to do this later tonight
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Some SVN features not in Fossil
My research was on hold (still is). Following a chain of posts elsewhere on
the web, I came across this:
http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/
Among other things, it can read SVN dump files and
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Andreas Kupries andre...@activestate.com
wrote:
Saw this on /. today
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/14/10/20/217248/help-esr-stamp-out-cvs-and-svn-in-our-lifetime
That's what lead me to reposurgeon.
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I have been working recently (albeit slowly) on a 'fossil import --svn'
option. I haven't pushed it since I didn't know if it would end up going
anywhere, but if people are interested in seeing partial work, I can push
it.
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Tagging files. SVN allows properties to be attached to files as well as to
commits. SVN properties
Actually... in principle fossil allows tagging any artifacts (i.e. any
UUID), but no UIs have every been developed for anything
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Tagging files. SVN allows properties to be attached to files as well as
to commits. SVN properties
[stephan@host:~/cvs/fossil/cwal]$ f-tag -a
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:42:11 -0400
Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
SVN also allows properties on directories. But Fossil doesn't track
directories, so can't support this.
What about svn:externals? I know many projects, as well as the one in
question, use them a lot?
Any optimal way to do it
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
A question about libfossil: Is it possible to directly create a delta
artifact? I ask this because it looks like SVN::Dump::Reader does not
un-delta the artifact content. So either I would have to apply the delta
myself (to
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:59:52 -0400
Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
For a project that follows the recommended convention of directories
named trunk, branches and tags - or clearly identifies its
convention - creating branches (and tagged commits) in Fossil should
not be too hard. If the
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
After doing some research,
More research...
In the SVN dump file, deltas are optional, so an initial implementation can
omit dealing with deltas.
SVN dump files do not have manifests. There is a revision artifact followed
by
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
More research...
Needing a break from dump file processing, I decided to look in to how a
mirror could be kept up to date.
I previously mentioned using a commit monitor, so I looked to see how one
SVN repo could mirror another.
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:00:08 -0400
Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Ron,
Needing a break from dump file processing, I decided to look in to
how a mirror could be kept up to date.
Thank you very much for taking time in doing this research...
Although this sounds like a Rube Goldberg
On Oct 15, 2014, at 2:18 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
checkin [da524a7b522f] @ 2014-10-15 22:13:19 by [stephan] branch [trunk]
initial chicken.
On April 1, Fossil should use this as its default comment for commits to new
trees.
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:12:07 +0200, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com
wrote:
On Oct 15, 2014, at 2:18 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
checkin [da524a7b522f] @ 2014-10-15 22:13:19 by [stephan] branch [trunk]
initial chicken.
On April 1, Fossil should use this as its
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:00:08 -0400
Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Needing a break from dump file processing, I decided to look in to
how a mirror could be kept up to date.
Thank you very much for taking time in doing this
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
The main information the post commit hook method risks loosing is the
relationship between a copied file and its copy, but Fossil doesn't have a
copy command, so doesn't keep this, though I'm pretty sure it could.
Err, was too
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote:
In any case, my opinion is that having SVN --- Fossil is much more
interested than Git --- Fossil 'cause, imho, with Fossil one can make
very familiar/similar workflow like the one used with SVN.
Some SVN features not in Fossil:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
But that's just the executive summary. The details will require much
research, planning and design.
After doing some research, I was reminded that SVN branches (and tags) are
implemented as copy-by-reference. This means that
Hello,
I like Fossil and I'm using it for all my projects.
However, I would be glad that it would be used for many (open-source)
projects considering that it would be more suitable than Git(hub).
Recently I've re-awakened contact with the leader of one big FLOSS
project telling him more about
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote:
$ fossil dbstat
repository-size: 660814848 bytes (660.8MB)
artifact-count:248761 (stored as 36568 full text and 212193 delta
blobs)
artifact-sizes:221499 average, 40470493 max, 55100155703 bytes
(55.1GB) total
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote:
As you know, migrating the project to new (D)VCS is never
straightforward procedure without opposition from other camps mixed with
politics. :-)
However, natural step would be to provide Fossil mirror in order to show
its
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014, at 01:23 PM, Ron W wrote:
In theory, writing a SVN-dump to git-fast-export format converter could be
done. If you want to have a near real time mirror of the SVN repo, you might
have to create the Fossil repo that way because git-svn maps SVN branches
and tags in a
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Sean Woods s...@seanwoods.com wrote:
I wish the
gitmarks feature was better supported in Fossil to have a true
incremental import without scripting multiple version control systems.
But, development efforts are probably better placed elsewhere.
Fossil
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:23:56 -0400
Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
The easiest way I have found, so far, to convert SVN to Fossil is via
Git.
OK, that's what I was assuming.
In theory, writing a SVN-dump to git-fast-export format converter
could be done. If you want to have a near real
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:30:05 -0400
Sean Woods s...@seanwoods.com wrote:
I experimented with SVN to Fossil via Git a little over a year ago.
It worked well for an initial export with no future imports, but for
incremental updates it didn't work very well. The diffs were messed
up. Here is the
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote:
Well, I believe that Fossil could be interested for many SVN projects.
The project which I converted has Git mirror which works with svn2git
and every project users can see how does it feel using new (D)VCS. In
that way, by not
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Or I could try using libfossil to create a Fossil repo directly.
[stephan@host:~/tmp]$ f-new ron.fsl -m 'initial chicken.'
Created repository: ron.fsl
server-code= f107b37d27e8ede74a65e9ec99350509cd77c3f5
project-code =
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Ron W ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Or I could try using libfossil to create a Fossil repo directly.
[stephan@host:~/tmp]$ f-new ron.fsl -m 'initial chicken.'
I mean that as my
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